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Information processing apparatus, client device, and license management system

a technology of information processing apparatus and license management system, which is applied in the field of information processing apparatus and client devices, can solve the problems of inability to collectively issue licenses for a plurality of software applications, time-consuming and troublesome process, and inability to activate additional software applications, etc., and achieves the effect of reducing communication and efficiently issuing licenses

Active Publication Date: 2012-11-20
CANON KK
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The present invention is about a technique to efficiently issue licenses for software applications. It involves managing information about multiple software applications and receiving a request for a license file that can identify the application. The system generates a plurality of license files and transmits them to the client device where the application is installed. This reduces communication between the client device and the license issuing server, making the licensing process more efficient. The technical effect of this invention is to streamline the licensing process for software applications.

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To be specific, in the conventional cases, if, for example, an additional software application is installed, it is necessary to access a license issuing server and acquire a license each time an additional software application is installed, which is a very troublesome and time-consuming process.
In addition to being troublesome, if communications with a license issuing server are stopped, an added software application could not be activated until the communications are reestablished.
Moreover, these techniques cannot collectively issue licenses for a plurality of software applications in response to a request to issue a license for one software application.

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[0029]Various exemplary embodiments, features, and aspects of the invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

[0030]FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the hardware configuration of an information processing apparatus such as a client device and a license issuing server. In FIG. 2, a display device 201 includes a display screen that displays user interface information, for example, a window, an icon, a message, a menu, and others. In a video random access memory (VRAM) 202, an image to be displayed on the display device 201 is rendered.

[0031]Image data generated in the VRAM 202 is transferred to the display device 201 and an image is displayed thereon. An external storage device, such as a compact disk drive (CDD) 203, is a device that reads / writes various kinds of control programs and data from / to a recording medium such as a compact disk read only memory (CD-ROM) and compact disk recordable (CD-R). A digital versatile disk (DVD) drive can also be ...

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Abstract

A license issuing server manages information about a plurality of software applications including an installable software application and a yet uninstallable software application, such as an unreleased software application, in association with a product code. Upon receiving a request for a license file which can identify the product code from a client device, the license issuing server generates a plurality of license files corresponding to information about a plurality of software applications managed in association with the product code and collectively issues the license files to the client device.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to a technique of issuing a license to use a software application with a license management system.[0003]2. Description of the Related Art[0004]Hitherto, a license management system for managing a license to use a software application to be installed to an information processing apparatus has been proposed. In such a system, a license to use a software application to be installed is issued in association with specific information of the application so as to prevent unauthorized use of the software application to be installed (see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2000-207199).[0005]Further, the following method has been proposed (see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2001-5659). A computer for issuing a license gives a distribution license only once to a license server computer on a network at a side of a computer for executing an application. Then, a plurality of execution ...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F21/00G06F21/10
CPCG06F21/10
Inventor MIKAMI, YUZO
Owner CANON KK
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